Life-saving jacket.



0. BEAUMONT.

LIFE SAVINGJACKET.

APPLICATION FILED FEB-1.19M

1,270,686. v Patented June 25, 1918.

79; arm/6% ORPHEUS BEAUMONT, OF PUKETERAKI, NEW ZEALAND.

LIFE-SAVING JACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1918.

Application filed February 1, 1918. Serial No. 214,953.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORPHEUS BEAUMONT, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Puketeraki, in the Province of Otago, New Zealand, married woman, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Life-Saving Jackets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a new and improved life-saving jacket of the kind comprising buoyant cushions or pockets of brown Holland or other suitable textile fabric stuffed with a light filling material such as, for example, seedless Java kapok, or cork.

According to this invention the improved jacket comprises two cushions or pockets of substantially the same shape and dimensions each provided along their top and bottom edges with tubular hems or headings or like arrangements through which drawstrings can be passed. These tubular hems at the upper and lower edges of the cushions or pockets may be connected together respectively by tubular parts inclosing the drawstrings. This construction provides a jacket in which the back and front and top and bottom are indistinguishable and which can therefore be 'put on hind part before, upside down or inside out without making any difference in the convenience of adjustment and security of the means for fastening it in position on the wearer, or the ability of the jacket to support the wearer properly in the water.

The accompanying drawing is a perspective View showing how my said invention may be conveniently and advantageously carried into practice.

In this drawing, a, b are two cushions or pockets of Holland or cotton duck sewn along the lines 0 to retain the filling material. At the top and bottom edges of these cushions or pockets the double thickness of material provides tubular passages through which draw-strings (Z are run. These drawstrings are brought to the outside through eyeleted holes e near the middle of the upper and lower edges of both cushions or pockets.

The corners of the cushions are extended to form tubular parts 7, f inclosing the draw-strings as they pass from one cushion to the other.

For use, the jacket is placed over the head of the wearer in such a manner that the tubular parts 7 pass over the shoulders and the tubular parts 7" pass below the arm-pits. The draw-strings (Z are then drawn up sufficiently to secure the jacket in position and the ends of the strings are tied together. Four draw-strings are provided arranged in the upper and lower left and right hand tubular passages respectively.

This arrangement of the draw-strings and jacket renders the whole particularly convenient for putting on under disadvantageous conditions, for example, by a person in deep or rough water.

If the draw-strings at the upper part are left loose and those at the lower part are drawn tight, a space or receptacle is formed between the body of the wearer and the cushion at the front in which, for example, an infant can be placed.

I claim:

1. A life-saving jacket comprising in combination two pockets of textile fabric, tubular hcms at the upper and lower edges of each pocket, draw-strings passing through the said tubular hems, and serving to connect the two pockets and a permanent stuffing of light filling material in the said pockets.

2. A life-saving jacket comprising in combination two pockets of textile fabric, tubular hems at the upper and lower edges of each pocket, draw-strings passing through the said tubular hems, tubular parts extending from the corners of the pockets and inclosing the draw-strings as they pass from one pocket to the other, and a permanent stuffing of light filling material in the said pockets.

3. A lifesaving jacket comprising in combination two similar pockets of textile fabric, tubular hems at the upper and lower edges of each pocket, draw-strings passing through the said tubular hems and respectively passing one, from each corner of one pocket to the corresponding corner of the other pocket, eyelets near the middle of each tubular hem through which the ends of the draw-strings pass outside of the hems, and a stuffing of light filling material in the said pockets.

ORPHEUS BEAUMONT. Witnesses:

JOHN T. KNowLns, HERBERT A. BEESTON.

Copies 01 this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G." 

